jbrooksuk

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   by jbrooksuk 4y ago

   Hey everyone! I'm James, aka @jbrooksuk. For over a year I've been working on Checkmango, a full stack A/B testing platform. I started working on it after I left my old role at an online travel agency. We wanted to do A/
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   Show HN: Checkmango – The Full Stack A/B Testing Platform(checkmango.com)

   1 points by jbrooksuk 4y ago|1 comments
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   by jbrooksuk 4y ago

   Me! I'm in Staffordshire, so would be better to travel to Manchester than London.
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   by jbrooksuk 4y ago

   We (Laravel) have just switched the frontend tooling from Laravel Mix (a webpack wrapper) for Vite. https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/vite#main-content The speed gains are super impressive from Vite.
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   by jbrooksuk 5y ago

   Thanks! :)
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   by jbrooksuk 5y ago

   https://james.brooks.page I don't blog enough really, but it does serve as a nice mirror for my Laravel blog posts. I also share what hardware and software I use at https://james.brooks.page/uses
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   Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet(artisan.page)

   2 points by jbrooksuk 5y ago|0 comments
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   Show HN: Checkmango – Full Stack A/B Testing Platform(checkmango.com)

   1 points by jbrooksuk 5y ago|0 comments
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   by jbrooksuk 5y ago

   If you don't want to pay it, then you probably don't need it. I don't have experience with alternatives though - they just don't do as good of a job as Fathom does.
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    by jbrooksuk 5y ago

    And that's why, as a responsible developer, I exclusively use Fathom for my own projects. As far as I know, they are the only analytics company who are correctly following the law here AND they always try to do more. They completel
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    by jbrooksuk 5y ago

    Paywall free link: https://archive.is/2021.05.31-224815/https://www.telegraph.c...
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    by jbrooksuk 5y ago

    It's so good to see Jon Klassen getting recognition on HN! His books are superb! Short, sweet and extremely funny :D
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    Show HN: Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet(artisan.page)

    3 points by jbrooksuk 6y ago|0 comments
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    by jbrooksuk 6y ago

    We had the chance to buy a support plan with DO in a previous job. May be worth asking if that's something they can help with?
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    Workaround for Bluetooth Disconnection Issues on Apple M1 Devices(twitter.com)

    1 points by jbrooksuk 6y ago|0 comments
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    by jbrooksuk 6y ago

    I also checked to see if they were mentioned! It’s interesting how a band can make you aware of something very obscure (outside of my domain, that is).
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    Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence Diagnosis Using Only Cough Recordings(embs.org)

    4 points by jbrooksuk 6y ago|0 comments
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    by jbrooksuk 6y ago

    Out of interest, how did this happen without any investigation into possible consequences etc? It’s a huge change that surely warranted special attention before making it happen?
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    by jbrooksuk 6y ago

    If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
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    by jbrooksuk 6y ago

    > Apple have (freely) provided Basecamp a platform to grow their business via the App Store, whilst giving Apple (effectively) nothing in return. It's not free though, is it? You have to pay $99 a year, and purchase Apple hardware t
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    by jbrooksuk 6y ago

    I've been happily using Fathom Analytics: https://usefathom.com and I have zero complaints. No tracking. Privacy focused. Lightweight. You embed from your own domain. They even do site monitoring now!
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    by jbrooksuk 6y ago

    I think companies such as MelodyVR are going to be pretty big because of the effects of COVID-19. It’s an interesting problem-space and it’ll take a while for people to acclimatise to the changes, but I think we’ll start to see a lot of thi
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    by jbrooksuk 6y ago

    I came for the TOP reference and I was not disappointed.
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    by jbrooksuk 7y ago

    I use PiP for various videos, whilst I’m working and not splitting the screen.
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    Happy Dev – A podcast to discuss mental health(happy-dev.transistor.fm)

    1 points by jbrooksuk 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jbrooksuk 7y ago

    I’ve actually just started a new podcast on discussing mental health in the software development industry. It’s called Happy Dev https://happy-dev.transistor.fm Episode one will be out tomorrow morning!
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    Laravel Forge: User Isolation(blog.laravel.com)

    1 points by jbrooksuk 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jbrooksuk 7y ago

    I’ve heard that “charities” such as Cancer Research UK are actually business who invest very little of their income to actual research, instead paying relatively a lot more for media and payroll?
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    by jbrooksuk 7y ago

    I remember seeing The V Motion Project [0] when it first came out. It'd be good to see other people approach this too! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YERtJ-5wlhM
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    by jbrooksuk 7y ago

    Could you imagine donating to everyone in `node_modules`?